The response, at least in its ideal form, was not to narrow literacy instruction but to strengthen it. Schools restored ...

Corrected: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the print version of the Core Knowledge standards will be given away for free. The foundation will make the standards available for ...

Aspen Academy – our tuition-free public charter school for students in kindergarten through eighth grade – has now been in existence for over nine years in the Prior Lake-Savage area. It is a ...

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that was founded in 1986 by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., professor emeritus at the University of Virginia and author of 'The Knowledge Deficit', 'Cultural Literacy', and 'The Schools We Need and Why We Don't ...

Educators, policy makers and business leaders often fret about the state of math education,” the New York Times reported in May. “But reading comprehension may be a larger stumbling block.” Indeed, ...